Q6600 performance in current games

will I be able to play current games in high with a Q6600 and my current setup adam0926

Maybe not yet with a quad, but you should def get a C2D ..

This is a no brainer, if you are buying now and don't want to upgrade next year get a quad. It will run any current game great and the Q6600 easily overclocks to 3ghz. All of the high profile games coming out will be multithreaded, and many already are (Bioshock, Supreme Commander, Oblivion, WoW: BC, and CoD2). In the next year you will see a huge advantage to having a quad, as when a game is multithreaded they naturally perform much better than dual cores. Your graphics card will be absolete before a Q6600 at 3ghz is.Zaber123

I ran bioshock in a window and kept an eye on my cpu monitor, only seemed to use the one core, do have a screenshot somewhere...

This is a no brainer, if you are buying now and don't want to upgrade next year get a quad. It will run any current game great and the Q6600 easily overclocks to 3ghz. All of the high profile games coming out will be multithreaded, and many already are (Bioshock, Supreme Commander, Oblivion, WoW: BC, and CoD2). In the next year you will see a huge advantage to having a quad, as when a game is multithreaded they naturally perform much better than dual cores. Your graphics card will be absolete before a Q6600 at 3ghz is.Zaber123

wow, this is a weird thread...

im just going to comment that a quad core is absolutely useless at the moment and a waste of time and money.

most apps dont even support dual cores yet, what good would a quad core do?

wow, this is a weird thread...

im just going to comment that a quad core is absolutely useless at the moment and a waste of time and money.

most apps dont even support dual cores yet, what good would a quad core do?

ThE_SoCK

I'm thinking of getting a Q6600 CPU but people keep saying its only good for future game and I wont see good performnce in current games, is this true can any one who owns a Q6600 tell me how they perform. adam0926

You'll get great perfomance in games (at least as good as with a dual core E6600) but not necessary better perfromance than with a dual core. In games 3 out of the 4 cores will remain largely unused.

[QUOTE="Zaber123"]This is a no brainer, if you are buying now and don't want to upgrade next year get a quad. It will run any current game great and the Q6600 easily overclocks to 3ghz. All of the high profile games coming out will be multithreaded, and many already are (Bioshock, Supreme Commander, Oblivion, WoW: BC, and CoD2). In the next year you will see a huge advantage to having a quad, as when a game is multithreaded they naturally perform much better than dual cores. Your graphics card will be absolete before a Q6600 at 3ghz is.mastershake575

[QUOTE="mastershake575"][QUOTE="Zaber123"]This is a no brainer, if you are buying now and don't want to upgrade next year get a quad. It will run any current game great and the Q6600 easily overclocks to 3ghz. All of the high profile games coming out will be multithreaded, and many already are (Bioshock, Supreme Commander, Oblivion, WoW: BC, and CoD2). In the next year you will see a huge advantage to having a quad, as when a game is multithreaded they naturally perform much better than dual cores. Your graphics card will be absolete before a Q6600 at 3ghz is.Zaber123

[QUOTE="Zaber123"][QUOTE="mastershake575"][QUOTE="Zaber123"]This is a no brainer, if you are buying now and don't want to upgrade next year get a quad. It will run any current game great and the Q6600 easily overclocks to 3ghz. All of the high profile games coming out will be multithreaded, and many already are (Bioshock, Supreme Commander, Oblivion, WoW: BC, and CoD2). In the next year you will see a huge advantage to having a quad, as when a game is multithreaded they naturally perform much better than dual cores. Your graphics card will be absolete before a Q6600 at 3ghz is.mastershake575

[QUOTE="mastershake575"][QUOTE="Zaber123"][QUOTE="mastershake575"][QUOTE="Zaber123"]This is a no brainer, if you are buying now and don't want to upgrade next year get a quad. It will run any current game great and the Q6600 easily overclocks to 3ghz. All of the high profile games coming out will be multithreaded, and many already are (Bioshock, Supreme Commander, Oblivion, WoW: BC, and CoD2). In the next year you will see a huge advantage to having a quad, as when a game is multithreaded they naturally perform much better than dual cores. Your graphics card will be absolete before a Q6600 at 3ghz is.TDuiker

E6750 for example will be faster, and i saw a lot of benchmarks and also with 8 runnings from different progs will the E6750 be faster then a Q6600.

Its will be fast when game support it, but it doesnt, and when it does there a lot more faster cpu's.

So i advice u to buy a E6750.

I got one and it owns!!!!!!

With the heaviests games excisting u can easily going from game to windows, playing Realplayer etc..

And also very fast hdd writing...

It just owns the Quad.

BTW: a E6750 can be easily overclocked with standard cooler till 3,45Mhz with nice temperatures.

hey adam, how r ya, long time no c, congrats about the processor 3.9ghz lol.about the processor, get an e6550, or an e6420. then OC OC AND OC.

RESPEKT

E6750 for example will be faster, and i saw a lot of benchmarks and also with 8 runnings from different progs will the E6750 be faster then a Q6600.

Its will be fast when game support it, but it doesnt, and when it does there a lot more faster cpu's.

So i advice u to buy a E6750.

I got one and it owns!!!!!!

With the heaviests games excisting u can easily going from game to windows, playing Realplayer etc..

And also very fast hdd writing...

It just owns the Quad.

BTW: a E6750 can be easily overclocked with standard cooler till 3,45Mhz with nice temperatures.

rogreslief

I disagre, you can easily buy a Q6600 and overclock it past E6750 speeds(mines are E6850 speeds) and now you have 2 E6750s compared to your 1, how is that better? But if you are really tight on money E6750 is a great choice. We shall see how Quads peform in Crysis, I think the result is going to be awesome.

Right now my Quad can handle anything I can throw at it without breaking a sweat. It all depends on your budget imo.

I disagre, you can easily buy a Q6600 and overclock it past E6750 speeds(mines are E6850 speeds) and now you have 2 E6750s compared to your 1, how is that better? But if you are really tight on money E6750 is a great choice. We shall see how Quads peform in Crysis, I think the result is going to be awesome.

Right now my Quad can handle anything I can throw at it without breaking a sweat. It all depends on your budget imo.

bignice12

You can oc a E6750 also far past a Q6600 that so that's a moot point.

lol yeah,

sure u can clock it till E6750 Speed.

But what i mean is that the E6750 got standard a higher speed cpu-clock, so i think its possible to clock higher then a Q6600.

But don't know about the multipair (with E6750 max 9x)

But look for a 1333MHz cuz E6600 for example is with lower fsb > Q6600 FSB=1333FSB

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where it is all about, what is faster..

A duo core is faster @ the moment in games, so if u buy a new cpu now, buy a duo, cuz in a couple of moths u got the first next-gen cpu's that are faster of course. (Q6600 is 'some older' @ that time)

Wont you be able to multi task more with a quad core? Although you wont see a big performance jup for gaming wont it have a generally better performance?da1on2

Yes and no.
Yes you can multitask more.
And no to not seeing a large performance jump in games.

Once games become multithreaded, dualcores will see a 20% MAX increase in performance over single cores. Quadcores, on the other hand, will see a much larger performance increase. Crysis and Valve's updated Source engine will be two games that really show off the performance increase of quadcores.

[QUOTE="da1on2"]Wont you be able to multi task more with a quad core? Although you wont see a big performance jup for gaming wont it have a generally better performance?LordEC911

Yes and no.
Yes you can multitask more.
And no to not seeing a large performance jump in games.

Once games become multithreaded, dualcores will see a 20% MAX increase in performance over single cores. Quadcores, on the other hand, will see a much larger performance increase. Crysis and Valve's updated Source engine will be two games that really show off the performance increase of quadcores.